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Just in from EA's Battlefield Blog Check out our brand new trailer for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/battlefield_5F00_bad_5F00_company/Trailer.png Hit the pic to watch the new trailer on our Youtube channel. Hi Battlefield fans! Today, we have a brand new trailer for you from Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam. The action in this ingame footage is recorded on Phu Bai Valley Rice Fields, one of the four maps in this upcoming expansion. Click above to view it in our customized Youtube channel, or below to play it right here on the blog. Enjoy, and let us know what you think! (Please visit the site to view this media) http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=31448 More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed BattleGroup42 v1.7 Released BattleGroup42 released v1.7 for Battlefield 1942, which has lots of new content including 26 new vehicles and 22 new maps. The client is split into 5... More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed BC2 Vietnam Phu Bai Valley Action Trailer + Price DICE posted a new Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam trailer today showing the map Phu Bai Valley. The end of the trailer states BC2 Vietnam will be... More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Interstate Nitro Update Interstate Nitro has some new screenshots showing a couple new maps and new spawn system.Hey there, we are back with our October News Update.Spawn... More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Battlefield Blog - Community Wednesday #16 Take a look at this week's community update Wednesday from the Battlefield Blog.Good afternoon all community friends! This week we have a lot of... More...

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Just in from Battlefield Bad Company 2 Twitter Feed OfficialBFBC2: Community Wednesday: Forgotten Hope 2, Tournaments and a Halloween Challenge. OfficialBFBC2: Community Wednesday: Forgotten Hope 2, Tournaments and a Halloween Challenge. More... OfficialBFBC2: Community Wednesday: Forgotten Hope 2, Tournaments and a Halloween Challenge.

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Just in from EA's Battlefield Blog Community Wednesday #16: Mods, tournaments, and a Halloween challenge! Good afternoon all community friends! This week we have a lot of interesting things to cover in our Community Wednesday, so here we go! Check out the awesome Battlefield 2 mod Forgotten Hope 2! http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/400x0/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/battlefield_5F00_bad_5F00_company/FH2_2D00_2.jpg The Battlefield modding community is alive and kicking. Hope is nowhere near lost, repeat, nowhere near lost. Battlefield has seen a lot of GREAT mods made by some very creative people around the world. We all remember the Desert Combat mod for Battlefield 1942, right? Forgotten Hope is one of the modifications that has been on the scene ever since Battlefield 1942, and the team's experience really shows: The graphics and detail level in their new mod Forgotten Hope 2 (based on Battlefield 2) are amazing, and the gameplay is well balanced. Even the weapon sounds are fantastic. This is one of the best examples on how to bring tactic and speed together in a polished gameplay. From version 2.2, with Normandy as a new scenario, Forgotten Hope 2 offers a good mix of urban warfare and the typical large Battlefield experience. One of the best maps is "Pointe du hoc". It is a challenge defending or attacking the large cliffs on both sides. Check out the trailer below. (Please visit the site to view this media) ESL Battlefield tournaments start soon! As youmay know, ESL (Electronic Sports League) is running no less three different Nations Cup Tournaments in Battlefield right now: Battlefield 2: 5v5 Battlefield: Bad Company 2: 5v5 Battlefield: Bad Company 2: 6v6 These competitions usually attract a lot of attention, being hosted by one of the biggest leagues in the world. If you want to check out the latest results and fixtures, hit the jumps to read up on a lot of Nations Cup stats and news. Also, Rush Zone tend to livestream the matches so tune in to their site and get in on the action! Get dressed for gaming success -- Win official Battlefield swag! http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/battlefield_5F00_bad_5F00_company/pumpkin.png Halloween FTW. Here's a little community challenge for everyone to take part in! Since we're approaching Halloween, whoever can come up with the most creative Halloween costume inspired by any Battlefield game will win some really cool official Battlefield swag from us here at DICE. The last day you can submit your pictures of your Halloween costume is on the 5th of November, so start working on a creative outfit ! Send your pics to the forums by clicking this. Autumn Squad Rush Cup -- Your chance to play with zh1nt0! Alright, ladies and gentlemen! The team over at www.consoles.net are launching a Playstation 3 Bad Company 2 "Special Autumn Cup" and an Xbox 360 Bad Company 2 "Special Autumn Cup"! It's a 4v4 Cup in Squad Rush that will put some heavy emphasis on team play, so get your kits ready and sign up for this. The cup starts on the 25th of October. If anyone needs a team member, I'm game, and just a tweet away! And remember to check back next Wednesday for more happenings in the Battlefield community. Peace! // www.twitter.com/zh1nt0 http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=31424 More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Forgotten Hope 2 - Lightweights Forgotten Hope 2 posted an update today with two new renders of M24 Chaffee tank and M1919A6 Browning Light Machine gun.Hello and welcome back to... More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Battlefield 3 Will Get Extra PC Attention It is fairly well known by now that DICE has been working on Battlefield 3 since at least last year. We haven't heard much about the officially... More...

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Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed BF Blog - Interview with Gustav Halling Another new developer interview has popped up on the Battlefield Blog. This article features gameplay designer Gustav Halling.Gustav Halling is one of... More...

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Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Battlegroup42 1.7 - More New Maps BattleGroup42 revealed some new maps they have in store for their next release, which they plan to release this Wednesday.Topic aktuelle NewsHello and... More...

Just in from EA's Battlefield Blog Rolling with Awesome: And the Winners are... The Rolling with awesome competition was a Video Competition for members of the BC2 Community to take part in. Many of you posted your videos for us to take part of and because all of them were very good I'm looking forward to posting them on our blog these next weeks to come. Congrats to the community members who made it into the top 3 ! The final ranking is: 1. Cherchell-is 2. R3CLAIMED 3. Turst67 From: Cherchell-is (Please visit the site to view this media) From: R3CLAIMED The Hornet pt.2 From: Turst67 How to become a great soldier in BFBC2: Prizes: 1st Place: BF 1942- Deluxe Edition BF Vietnam- Classic Edition Battlefield 2 Battlefield 2142 Battlefield 2142 Keyband *All copies are signed by people from DICE 2nd Place: Battlefield Bad Company 2 T-shirt DICE Flipflops DICE belt (One size fits all) Battlefield 2142 Keyband 3rd Place: Battlefield Bad Company 2 Keyband DICE Belt http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=31358 More...

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Just in from EA's Battlefield Blog DICE Veteran Gustav Halling: "Vietnam feels more hardcore" http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/400x0/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/battlefield_5F00_bad_5F00_company/Halling2.png If the nick "CMD" means anything to you, this is he. He also happens to be one of the designers behind our new Vietnam expansion. Gustav Halling is one of the youngest game designers here at DICE. He joined four years ago, having caught our attention for his kickassery in Battlefield and his great community work. Today, he is involved in every aspect of the development of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam. Hi Gustav! How did you find DICE? -- DICE found me! I played a lot of Battlefield on a professional and semi-professional level. I also started the sites bf2.se and bf2142.se when I was in school, so DICE heard of me and started inviting me to their playtests. I gave them a lot of feedback and design ideas during the playtests, so eventually they offered me a job as designer, and here I am. And you got here straight after school? -- Yeah, that was cool. Once I was in, though, I knew I couldn't just goof around. At DICE, everyone wants to prove themselves. But I'm really self-taught and learn everything I need quickly. If there's something I can't do, I learn it, like Frostbite and Maya that I work with now. When it comes to programming, I know enough to know what's wrong where. I guess I'm logical and technical, that way. What did you start on after getting hired? -- One of the first things I did for DICE was a gun sway system I developed, and that we are using in our Battlefield games now. So er... what's a gun sway system, anyway? -- It's a program that calculates recoil and shot spread based on weapon parameters that you enter. It's also based on where the last bullet travelled. Before that, we used a simpler system that was not as accurate. Our new system is more logical and makes sense on a whole different level. Plus designers get more freedom to tweak weapons quickly and easily with this. http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/400x0/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/battlefield_5F00_bad_5F00_company/coral.jpg For the love of planes. What was your next project?-- I worked on the Conquest Map Pack for Battlefield: Bad Company, where we redesigned four singleplayer maps for Conquest game mode. This was the very first time we did Conquest in our Frostbite engine. I was responsible for game logic and gameplay. -- Then I moved on to Battlefield 1943 as gameplay designer, focusing on weapons and vehicles mostly. I built all the maps, based on the height maps from the old game and transferred them to Frostbite. They looked kind of ugly and empty, so our grahic artists took the reins and polished them to the high quality they are today, and gave them an extra gameplay push, as well. I also helped build the classic Coral Sea from Battlefield 1942, which later became the Coral Sea Challenge [Where we asked the community to collect 43 million kills in the game to unlock this bonus map -- Editor's note]. How did you tweak Battlefield 1942 when you designed Battlefield 1943? -- Something we did in general was to make the maps 20-25 percent smaller throughout, to make them fit the faster, modern gameplay better. The gameplay in Battlefield 1942 wasn't fast at all. For example, it only had walk and run, and walk is pretty much gone entirely in games today -- you either run or sprint! In 1942 you could spend too much time going from A to B. The pace would probably be perceived as unacceptably slow today. How did it feel finally releasing Battlefield 1943? -- It felt fantastic. With Battlefield 1943, we were kind of underdogs, in a very small project with a team of just 20 people for one year. And then we released it and it just kicked ass! And from that you moved on to Medal of Honor, right? -- Yep, I was gameplay designer on Medal of Honor, mostly tweaking weapons and gameplay. I built a few maps, too. Which of your maps is your favorite? -- Probably Garmzir Town. It's a tight map very much inspired by Counter-Strike's old Dust maps. It's split by a channel in the middle, with a few tunnels and bridges in between. It's for tight infantry battles with no long distance fights. http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/battlefield_5F00_bad_5F00_company/Rice4.png Can you shoot it? Yes, you can. And now you're on Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam. What is it that you do?-- I'm designer. I do weapons, vehicles, and level logic, and try to help out wherever I am needed. If an artist for example has made a big polish pass on a level and want to move on to the next one, I try to help out with all of the small bugs in that first level. Did you play the old Battlefield Vietnam at all? -- Actually, no. I still played Battlefield 1942 on a serious level when the old Vietnam released. Some people like me didn't make the move to Vietnam, because competition-wise it was still Battlefield 1942 that was the game to play. So it is exciting now that I have the chance to experience Vietnam afterwards, so to speak. How do you reason when you design the maps for Bad Company 2 Vietnam? -- We want to create a bit more of an infantry focus here, even though we have large, vehicle-driven maps as well. I think Hill 137 exemplifies this, where there is a section in the middle with some vehicles, but throughout it has very tight infantry combat. Will the gameplay differ in Vietnam from the base game? -- It is a bit different. Since only sniper rifles have scopes in this expansion, it feels a bit more hardcore. Everyone runs around with ironsights, which makes it a bit harder, but everyone is playing on the same premises, so I think that's cool. What does a normal workday on Vietnam look like? -- I get here, talk a bit with Lead Designer "Figge" to see if there's anything urgent. Then I prepare for the daily playtest, check what we need to try out and see what we have in the Dev Track. That's the system where we list features and bugs. If something is broken, I go in and fix it. I do all kinds of things, really. Lately I've worked a lot on damage tweaking, for example. What do you mean, damage tweaking? -- Well, getting the damage model exactly right for the helicopters has been hard work. Since the NVA don't have any real AA weapons, we have decided to make the helicopter take damage from normal weapons. We do small adjustments every day to make it just right, balance-wise. Do playtests ever go horribly wrong? -- Hehe, well, one time, we had done some tweaks on the US tank, and it gained a speed of like 300 mph! There was also the time when tanks started floating in the sky, but that's all fixed now. What's your proudest moment as game developer so far? -- That has to be Battlefield 1943. I did so much in that game, and it's the very first game where I appeared in the credits. I guess you could get a worse start on your career! FOUR FACTS WITH HALLING Age: 25 Lives: Stockholm, Sweden Skill: Never Gets Hungover Three top Traits: "Doer. Logical. Technical." GAMEOGRAPHY Battlefield: Bad Company Conquest DLC Design Battlefield 1943 Gameplay Design Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Additional Design Medal of Honor Gameplay Design Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam Gameplay Design http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=31301 More...

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Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Project Reality v0.95 Released As planned, Project Reality released v0.95 today featuring many changes making it their most featured packed release to date. The client is split into... More...